Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Managing Multiple E-mail Accounts

How many e-mail addresses do you use? Between work, home, and Web-based accounts, it's not unusual for even a casual e-mail user to have 3 or more accounts to check. If you're an e-mail addict, you could easily have more than 10 e-mail addresses to keep track of.

Outlook includes a variety of tools and features that you can use to manage multiple e-mail accounts effectively:

• Unlike previous Outlook versions, Outlook 2002 offers full support for Microsoft's Web-based mail accounts, Hotmail and MSN.com.

• You can define multiple Send/Receive Groups with separate connection settings for each mail account. This allows you to check your favorite mail accounts regularly while downloading from infrequently used mail accounts ...